Re: [LIH] Re: Linux for desktop ??

[Kingsly J. <kin...@vs...>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

 |I might be wrong in the next sentence, but could you show me one
 |instance of innovation by the OpenSource community?
 |Something which is really path-breaking?

Apache, PHP , Perl ...

They don't fall in the desktop category though.

 |What I have observed over years is that, closed products come out with
 |some of the best designed and implemented stuff, then the OpenSource
 |community comes out with an version which is seemingly better
 |implemented than the original thing.

This is because until the internet explosion interaction amongst the
developers was not all that easy.

The OpenSource boom is just beginning... we now have Linux , Mozilla ,
OpenOffice etc which are applications which people never thought could be
done by volunteers...

Don't compare KDE and Gnome which are a few years old ... to an offering
from M$FT or Apple .. which have been in the business for ages... and
spent billions of dollars on R&D ... and learnt from their mistakes.

Compare KDE 3.x with Windows 3.x .. and you'll realise that the KDE
development effort is probably way ahead.

You and I would probably never know about the number of top secret
internal projects that would have been scapped because it wasn't good
enough.. whereas in the open source environment even the worst efforts and
biggest blunders will be made public... and people will get to use them.

Kingsly